john: just two weeks to go now before title 42 ends, biden administration is announcing new measures to tackle illegal immigration and human smuggling. scrambling to set up tents, tables and portable toilets to process migrants as they overwhelm border towns like brownsville texas. the surge is agents from 200 miles away are coming in to help. shelters in el paso, texas, overrun with migrants while an estimated 35,000 more are waiting across the border for title 42 to end. national border patrol council president brandon judd standing by. he ll join us on this and more coming up. john: but first, president biden taking the podium yesterday for his first news conference in more than a month and appearing to rely on cheat sheets to pull it all off. hello, john roberts, nice to spend friday eve as we like to call it around here with you. aishah: good to see you, john. this is america reports. 80-year-old commander in chief caught holding note cards featuring an expected
Would be asked about, the l.a. times now tells fox our reporter did not submit any questions in advance of the q & a with president biden. courtney covers the white house for the l.a. times. as such, she s in regular contact with white house press office seeking information for her reporting. you would have to ask the white house who prepared the document for the president and why they included that question. we do plan to ask the white house who prepared that document for the president but not just of concern to other reporters in the press corps, also of concern to voters who just said in that most recent fox news poll 76% of them want to see this president taking questions regularly in interviews and press conferences, aishah. aishah: i know you ll be following up on that. thank you. you know, i don t work often at the white house but when i do fill in for jacqui or peter, occasions where the white house staff will come by booth by booth and ask what topics are you interested.
it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. we ll start with the top stories. the sound and the fury. he was screaming, they re going to take us down and ranting about the middle east and a bomb. new tape this morning of a jet blue pilot and what s being called a mental breakdown at 30,000 feet. you re going to hear from the hero copilot and the passengers who literally grabbed him by his neck to save the flight. and the more you hear, the more you realize just how close they came to disaster. the supreme court, set for a critical final day of arguments in the historic health care debate. today s session focusing on whether parts of the president s plan can even remain law if the individual mandate at the heart of the overhaul is deemed unconstitutional. an emotional plea for justice. the parents of trayvon martin speaking to lawmakers on capitol hill, as supporters continue to insist the florida teenager was killed because he was black. newt gingrich is scaling back. the former hou